You can access the Wait and Finish programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "fail": "",
10    "dataset": {
11        "id": None,
12        "items": [
13            {
14                "id": 1,
15                "text": "My first item",
16            },
17            {
18                "id": 2,
19                "text": "My second item",
20            },
21        ],
22    },
23    "output": { "outputMessage": "Actor finished" },
24    "statusMessage": "",
25}
26
27# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
28run = client.actor("useful-tools/wait-and-finish").call(run_input=run_input)
29
30# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
31print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
32for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
33    print(item)
34
35# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Wait and Finish API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Wait and Finish API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Wait and Finish API in JavaScript

Wait and Finish API through CLI

Wait and Finish OpenAPI definition

Wait and Finish API

Actor Builder

useful-tools/actor-builder

Simple Actor which allows to create another Actors build. Used mostly for integration purposes.

Useful tools

Selenium with wait

decorative_quorum/selenium-with-wait

Runs a simple selenium-based scrape of a site, but waits a given amount of time for the broswer to load the page

José Eduardo Piña Castro

Super Simple UUID API

sscott/super-simple-uuid-api

super simple UUID API. This API allows you to create UUIDs and GUIDs quickly on-the-fly for testing purposes

Scott Williamson

GIF Scroll Animation

glenn/gif-scroll-animation

Free tool to automatically create an animated GIF of any scrolling web page. Useful for testing UX, showcasing your work, and capturing any website as a GIF, including clickable elements and animations. Includes settings to adjust speed, wait before scrolling, slow down on-page animations, and more.

Glenn Goossens

5.3K

Example Process Crawl Results

apify/example-process-crawl-results

Iterates through all results from a crawler run and count them. Needs to be called from the crawler's finish webhook by adding an URL to finish the webhook of your crawler. Use this actor as a starting point to develop custom post-processing of data from the crawler.

Apify

4.5

Sitemap Sniffer

vaclavrut/sitemap-sniffer

Sitemap sniffer will check the most used variants of sitemaps and you can use that for crawling. This will just save you time so you don't have to check manually.

Vaclav Rut

629

5.0

Scrape Emails And Social Media Links With Just a Query

lead.gen.labs/scrape-emails-and-social-media-links-with-just-a-query

Get Emails And Social Media Links With Just a Query !!!!! The actor will take a query and some parameter as input and scrape contact details with just a query. ACTOR IS FREE FOR LIMITED TIME.

LeadGen Labs

154

Free Tweet Scraper

coder_luffy/free-tweet-scraper

Extract full details from any public Tweet (now X post) using just the Tweet ID — no login, API key, or authentication required. Just input one or more Tweet IDs, and this actor will return clean, JSON-formatted results ready for analysis or integration.

Luffy

5.0

Scraper Api

zfcsoftware/scraper-api

This api allows you to scrape sites such as websites with rate limits, websites with protection such as Cloudflare. It is cheap and fast. It uses trusted proxies and works for most sites. The ip address used is not used again, a reliable ip is used for each request.